Mary Grace McNally
Mary Grace is an award-winning choreographer, producer, and creative director working across movement-driven events, live performance in concert and commercial spaces, and film.
Her choreographic credits include two evening-length shows, Not For Picking and When It Falls, which premiered in New York City and Los Angeles. Mary Grace is the founder and creative director of MG + Artists, a project-based dance collective. Her work has been presented at The Joyce Theater, The Dance Gallery Festival, Dixon Place, Young Choreographer’s Festival, Centre National de la Danse in France, and deSingel in Belgium. In 2018, Mary Grace was honored to be the winner of the Capezio A.C.E. Award.
Mary Grace’s work spans stage, film, and digital media. Her choreography appears in the feature film Sugar Baby, starring Mary Beth Barone, as well as the musical slasher Prom Party Massacre. She has served as movement director for Ryan McGinley Studios and numerous short films including Paper Boy, Gills, The Burning Hallucinations [..], Bloom, and Alex in Wonderland. She also choreographed and collaborated with comedian and actor Benito Skinner on a promotional short for the podcast Ride. Most recently, she has worked on the Field Cast Choreography team for Super Bowl LX with Bad Bunny, 2025 MLB World Series Game 1 Opening Ceremony with Pharrell and Snoop Dogg’s Holiday Halftime Party produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment for Netflix during the 2025 NFL Christmas Day game.
As a performer, Mary Grace has danced in the works of Monika Felice Smith, Jon Rua, Doug Varone, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Katie Swords-Thurman, Emma Portner, Erica Sobol, and Ryan Spencer. Her training includes studies with Medhi Walerski, Jesse Zaritt, Douglas Becker, Adi Salant, Jermaine Spivey, Spenser Theberge, and Tilman O’Donnell. Performance highlights include Madison Square Garden for Phish’s 2020 New Year’s Eve concert, as well as music videos for Lauv, OneRepublic, and Angel Olsen. She has also acted and danced in commercials for Nike, Microsoft, and Splash Blast Water.
Mary Grace works as a guest choreographer and educator with competitive studios, professional companies, conventions, and workshops across the United States. Alongside her creative work, she is an Associate Producer at Los Angeles–based creative production agency Salt Productions. Mary Grace holds a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts.